Drake Drake's best era of pre-album loosies?

Started by Poohdini, Apr 7, 2016, in Drake Add to Reading List

Best Era of Pre-Album Loosies?

  1. Thank Me Later

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  2. Take Care

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  3. Nothing Was The Same

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  4. If You're Reading This It's Too Late

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  5. View from the 6

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  1. Poohdini
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    Going back to Thank Me Later Drake has always dropped at least a handful of tracks drop leading up to his album release.

    Which era do you think had the best pre-album loosies?

    Thank Me Later
    July
    9AM in Dallas
    You Know, You Know
    Do It All
    The Winner

    Take Care
    Paris Morton Music
    Fall For Your Type
    I Get Lonely Too
    Dreams Money Can Buy
    Trust Issues
    Club Paradise
    Free Spirit

    Nothing Was The Same
    5AM in Toronto
    Girls Love Beyonce
    Versace
    Jodeci
    The Motion
    We Made It
    Trophies

    If You're Reading This It's Too Late
    Draft Day
    Days in the East
    Believe Me
    2 On/Thotful
    0-100/The Catch Up
    Views from the 6
    Grindin'
    Heat of the Moment
    How Bout Now

    Views from the 6
    Summer Sixteen
    These Days
    Controlla
    Tell Me
    Faithful
    Pop Style
    One Dance

    Feel free to let me know if I'm missing any or if certain songs are in the wrong spots.

    I Included IYRT because;
    1. Those tracks in 2014 were too good to leave out of this conversation and
    2. It got nominated for rap album of the year. Idc what he calls it, "dropped a mixtape that s--- sounded like a album" applies here.

    Tough to pick between TC & NWTS, but I have to go with TC. Club Paradise, Dreams Money Can Buy, and Paris Morton Music are some of his best songs OAT and TC would've been a certified classic had some of them been included on the album.

    If I had to rank them it'd go
    TC
    NWTS
    IYRT
    VFT6
    TML
     
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    aquaberryares one time I made sex

    Apr 7, 2016
    5am in toronto
    The motion
    Jodeci

    Its gotta be nwts era, even tho theres sum other dope songs scattered in there too
     
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    Apr 7, 2016
    It's between TC & NWTS to me.
     
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    Apr 7, 2016
    Has to be Take Care

    Trust Issues, Club Paradise & Dreams Money Can Buy are top 15 Drake songs.
     
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    Love how he flipped Trust Issues into a rap hit for Khaled. Not many people could do that.
     
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    Wasn't it the other way round?
     
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    s--- idk, either way it just highlights his versatility.
     
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  8. Immy
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    Seriously.. Look at this

    Take Care
    Paris Morton Music
    Fall For Your Type
    I Get Lonely Too
    Dreams Money Can Buy
    Trust Issues
    Club Paradise
    Free Spirit

    Someone tell me that these songs aren't f---ing amazing. Better than loads of Take Care
     
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    Yeah Drake borrowed the hook from I'm on one for trust issues. And yeah I agree.
     
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    compare Views to the previous 3 eras :ummmm:
     
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    Very easily 4th thanks to TML.
     
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    Easily for real
     
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    Not really familiar with the earlier ones, but I like quite a few from the NWTS era. What about Hotline Bling and the Meek Mill disses?
     
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    Days in the East, 2 On, and 0-100 almost as good as the 3 Flacko mentioned from TC.
     
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    I guess those could be pre-Views. They felt so in the middle that it was hard to pick where they fell.
     
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    You ever been hyped for an album to flop?
     
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    yeah B2B ect are just OVO Sound era
     
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    Cringe.
     
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    Drake will never flop.
     
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